It’s great that you took the time to come up with “Count Devron Masuvius Beldamor the III, High Magester of the Realms of Greeenwood”, but you need to realize that the players are just going to refer to him as “that wizard guy”, or simply, “Mister fancy-pants”.

If you send along a high-level NPC of great majesty and power to accompany the party, you need to realize that the players will treat this character like a bazooka: The NPC will become a weapon used to solve a problem in the bloodiest and most expedient manner possible, and then discarded without ceremony.

You may be a group of unsightly men sitting around a card table on a Friday night, but your players will still be looking for chances to meet girls.

Munchkins, anyway. The ones who started as adults had better luck – anyway the guy who DM’ed my first D&D game (at the SD ComicCon in 1974 – you know, the year it came out) wound up marrying one of the participants, yours truly. :)

I was half of a typical fighter/thief partnership for a while… we took a halfling captive, and when we had to open a door, we threw him through it first. After about fifteen rooms, the GM told us we had to get a new one, because this halfling was coming apart.

And I still remember the game in which, for some unknown reason, the gm gave us all squires. We sent them ahead to ‘detect traps.’ Then t vivid moment when one of the PCs used a spell to shove a squire through a door that we suspected was trapped & the “you sonnofa…” that came floating back.

Yeah I had a male character who everyone (including the DM) thought was a girl. I’ve also had chars who everybody else decided to rename… and I must confess to doing evil things with names that our DM has given NPCs.

@Katherine ;P I usually got the girl in our circle, but the lads didnt seem to mind if we made out during snack times
actually if Im honest it made them quieter then when we were actually playing
you should try it, I guarentee youll love it.

See, this is why as a female player I had a lot of fun playing gay male characters. I’d start flirting with other PCs and they’d flirt back because they forgot the gender of my character. And then I remind them and watch their horror unfold.

It was getting to the point in one adventure when our DM refused to have NPCs who understood whom we were referring to when we said “the king dude” or “that chick” so we started writing down names – misspelled and mispronounced, but we tried.

Again, in English:
Interesting, but it would be polite to use a language (or translate to a language), that the majority of the page’s readers understand. Especially, since Google’s translator leaves a lot to interpret.

Option 3: the players will refer to him as “Devvy”
Option 4: the players will refer to him as “that jewelry guy” even though the NPC has NOTHING to do with jewelry, through a series of jokes when the character was introduced. In my first gaming group, we ended up calling a male druid NPC “the old woodcutter woman”.

My experience is that partys don’t consider high powered NPCs on their side as expendable. They might need them in the future. That said they are better used for giving information or quests than being part of the party. That way they don’t dominate it.